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[quote=COOLSPRINGS,408003]Even in 1873, Japan's official "Complete Ryukyu Islands Map" did not include the Diaoyu Islands.

Japan argues that surveys of the islands, which were made by the Japanese Government through the agencies of the Okinawa Prefecture from 1885 onwards, confirm that they were uninhabited and had no trace of Chinese control.

Based on that information, the Japanese authorities made a Cabinet decision on January 14, 1895 to erect a marker on the islands to formally claim sovereignty.

The Okinawa Reversion Treaty is put up as further proof of their sovereignty claim over the islands.

The Diaoyu Islands were included in the group of islands which the US returned to Japan in 1972 under the treaty.

However, Chinese experts point out that after it annexed Ryukyu in 1879, Japan began looking to the Diaoyu Islands.

In 1884, Japanese Interior Minister Yamagada Akimoto petitioned the Okinawa Prefecture to erect national markers on the Diaoyu Islands.

But the then Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Inouye Kaolu, replied that such an act "would attract the attention of the Ching Nation (China) " and hence they "should await (for) a more opportune time," according to Japan's Foreign Affairs Archives.

It shows that Japan knew the islands were not under its rule and that they could not annex it outright, but merely bide their time.

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